Stacia and I disagree on the hullabaloo surrounding the cover for this month’s cover of Vogue. She gets the King Kong undertones and said it’s not a battle she cares to get all up in arms about; I think the cover and the fallout encapsulates the kind of thoughtlessness about racial imagery that are endemic Read More
In yet another instance of fraudulent (and/or negligent) journalism, LA Times reporter Chuck Philips and Deputy Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin have been forced to recant claims made in an article on March 17 that implicated associates of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ in the 1994 shooting death of Tupac Shakur. Philips claimed the newspaper had obtained FBI Read More
We’ve been trying to figure out if this is, you know, delightfully amateurish. Or intentionally awful. Or unintentionally awful.
Stuff Educated Latinos Like, ladies and gentlemen. Apparently educated Latino/as also enjoy diminishing returns? Also, Gary Dauphin over at The Root gets at some of our issues with StuffWhitePeopleLike.
This is actually the funniest stuff he’s ever said in his career. But we don’t think he was trying to be funny. (Hat-tip Brokey.)
That’s the ad. Read the column here.
Discussions of class differences among black people invariably become about how the educated and privileged are morally upstanding and how those who aren’t flawed and embarassing. Even when it’s toungue-in-cheek. So if we were ambivalent about StuffWhitePeopleLike, we’re positively cringing at this site. UPDATE: We’re not alone. Racialicious‘s Latoya Peterson noted the weirdness in the Read More
For the past two months, we PostBourgie pundits have been kicking around a loose and ongoing discussion about what constitutes blackface and cooning. My pet passion is more blackface-based, while Gene has stronger views on the concept of cooning. Back when we covered Angelina’s Image Award nomination, I briefly touched on my belief that playing Read More
Guess this one’s coming off my reading list. Last week, The New York Times profiled a writer named Margaret B. Jones in their House & Home section. Jones’ memoir, Love and Consequences, seemed like a fascinating one: a half-white, half-Native American girl who was raised in foster homes South Central L.A. before moving to Oregon Read More
(H/T Stereohyped.)
